Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-06-10
THE "BAD MAN" OF EUROPE.

THE "BAD MAN" OF EUROPE.
If the term "Bad Man" can be applied
to nation, England is the nation calling
aloud for the application of the term.
She is the ''Bad Man" of Europe.
Bluff is the ruling passion of John
Bull, and he paws up the earth as vigor-
ously on that platform now as when his
wealth, and his hearts and decks of oak
made him the arbiter of Europe, if not OF
the world.
But bluff is about the only one of the
old-time glories left England. No nation
has within the last twenty-five years so
fallen in place, power and prestige-has
been so belittled in the eyes of the
world. And yet the game of bluff goes
on. John Bull bellows as loud as ever,
and will so below unto the end. He is
the "Bad Man" among the Nations. HUI
inflated on all sides; laughed at and de-
spised by the powers she once dictated
to, England yet brags of her waning mill
tary strength, and yet thrusts forward her
bankrupt exchequer as an overshadow-
ing force in the worlds politics.
She ignores the finger of fate stretched
forth both at home and abroad, and
boasts and blows and brags and
is still the aggressor. With her
Indian possessions practically Rus
sian property; with Australia even
now an empire independent in its own
right; with her Americans provinces
falling away from her; with wronged and
oppressed Ireland backed by the SYM
pathies of world with her own people
disafected to the verge of revolt; with
the English power the mark of every
agitator on the face of the globe, John
Bull still proclaims himself the great
L Am.
England's dealings with Turkey is the
latest example of her truculent and i'm
pudent aggressions given TO the world.
By these dealing she has frightened
Turkey into the cession of the Island of
Cyprus, and into Turko-English con-
vention the basis of which is a considera-
ton of the affairs of Egypt from strictly
an English standpoint.
Passing by for the present the plunder
from Turkey of Cyprus, the Powers
turned their attention to the Egyptian
matter. France and Russia notified Tur
key that they could not consent to the pro-
visions of the Turko English convention.
On the receipt of this notification the
English Minister had a conference with
the Turkish cabinet, and it is now an
nounced "that Turkey will speedily rat
ify the convention; that after such rati-
fication the Powers will be invited to ac-
cede to the provisions of the convention;
that the Powers will be given three years
in which to SO accede, and if at the end
OF that period all have not endorsed
England's action, that the English evac-
uation of Egypt will be indefinitely post
poned."
Here is an assumption and declaration
OF English supreme authority not to be
surpassed in the palmiest days OF her
power. Does England suppose for an
instant that the Powers will be three
years in coming to a decision on this
Egyptian question? England is but
tempting fate. She is toying here with
double-edged dagger. She is Drawing
Russia on the Turkish soil the Slav auto
crat has so long coveted, and she is pro-
voking France in regard to Egypt-a
country France has already demanded in
no gentle terms that England shall
evacuate at once.
England's turbulence and impudence
in this Egyptian matter is aggravated
furthermore in the eyes Of Europe by
the feebleness OF the English clutch on
the soil of Egypt. AS a matter of fact,
this clutch amounts to nothing. 1t does
not exist. The experience OF the English
arms in Egypt has been only series OF
Observation-Disclosures peculiarly mortifying
and significant. 1t has been demon
strated by bloody trial that England is
unable to cope with the wild and fierce
Arabs of the Egytian deserts Yet the
old brag and boast asserts itself, and in
the face of complete and final defeat Eng
land tells Europe that with her alone
rests the destiny of Egypt.
The claim is as impudent as it is alb
surd. As feeble as it is aggressive, Eng
land is walking in the way of destruction.
The bad Man" of Europe is approach
ing the end of his badness.